Macavity Award Nominees 2012 | Anthony Awards 2012

Mystery Readers International have announced theÂ 2012 Macavity Award Nominees. Also known as the “Anthonies”, these awards are the ultimate accolade in the crime wand mystery reading world.

The winners will be announced atÂ Bouchercon, the World Mystery Convention, which is to be held in Cleveland at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, over the weekend of October 4-7. The award is named after the “mystery cat” in T.S. Eliot’s Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats). To be nominated, books and Stories need to have been published in the USA during 2011.

The nonimees are:

Best Mystery Novel

1222Â by Anne Holt, translated by Marlaine Delargy (Scribner)Claire DeWitt and the City of the DeadÂ by Sara Gran (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)The House of SilkÂ by Anthony Horowitz (Mulholland Books)The RidgeÂ by Michael Koryta (Little, Brown)A Trick of the LightÂ by Louise Penny (Minotaur)The Two Deaths of Daniel HayesÂ by Marcus Sakey (Dutton)Hell & GoneÂ by Duane Swierczynski (Mulholland Books)

Best Mystery-Related Nonfiction

Books, Crooks and Counselors: How to Write Accurately About Criminal Law and Courtroom ProcedureÂ by Leslie Budewitz (Linden)Agatha Christie: Murder in the Making: More Stories and Secrets from Her NotebooksÂ by John Curran (HarperCollins)Wilkie Collins, Vera Caspary and the Evolution of the Casebook NovelÂ by A.B. Emrys (McFarland)The Savage City: Race, Murder, and a Generation on the EdgeÂ by T.J. English (William Morrow)The Sookie Stackhouse CompanionÂ by Charlaine Harris (Ace)